HATING IS REFUSING TO ACKNOWLEDGE SOMEONE'S ABILITY!
I DID NOT REFUSE TO ACKNOWLEDGE HIS ABILITY!
I SIMPLY DO NOT FEEL THE SAME ABOUT HIS PLAYING AS SOME OF YOU DO!
I DON'T THINK ANYONE SAID ERIC MOORE WAS WACK! I WOULD'VE QUICKLY DISAGREED!
MY CRITIQUE OF HIS PLAYING ONLY CAME AFTER SOMEONE FELT HE WAS IN THE UPPER RANKS OF DRUMMERS! THE BROTHER HAS POTENTIAL, BUT I DON'T THINK HE'S THERE, YET! KEYWORD: YET!
YOU PEOPLE CAN'T SEEM TO RECOGNIZE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DISAGREEING WITH SOMEONE'S OPINION OF A DRUMMER, AND HATING ON SAID DRUMMER! I APPRECIATE ERIC'S PLAYING FOR WHAT IT IS! I'VE DOWNLOADING EVERYTHING OF HIS FROM GOSPELCHOPS!
SOMEONE SAID THAT HE WASN'T MENTIONED IN THE TOPIC ABOUT BEST CHOPS, AND I DIDN'T FEEL, AT THIS POINT IS HIS DEVELOPMENT, HE DESERVES TO BE MENTIONED THERE YET!
YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO DISAGREE, OF COURSE! HOWEVER, STOP GETTIN' ALL SENSITIVE, AND GOING TO THE EXTREME - THINKING I'M AGAINST HIM, OR I'M TRYING TO BRING HIM DOWN! I CAN'T BRING ERIC MOORE DOWN! I CAN ONLY GIVE MY OPINION BASED ON MY KNOWLEDGE AND MY EXPERIENCE!
NOT EVERYONE WILL AGREE .. AND IF SOMEONE OFFERS A CRITICISM OF SOMEONE'S PLAYING ... THAT'S NOT TO SAY THAT SAID PERSON CAN'T PLAY!
UNDERSTAND THE DIFFERENCE, PLEASE? I'M NOT SAYING ERIC MOORE ISN'T GOOD! HE'S VERY FAST, AND HE PUT ON QUITE A SHOW AT NAMM! IF YOU WOULD READ MY FIRST FEW COMMENTS ON THE TOPIC THAT WAS CREATED ABOUT HIM, AFTER THE NAMM PT. 2 VID DROP, YOU WILL NOTICED THAT I GAVE HIM HIS PROPS!
STOP BEING SO SENSITIVE AND EXTREME. CRITICISM DOESN'T ALWAYS EQUAL HATE! & IF I DISAGREE WITH YOU ABOUT ERIC, THAT'S MORE ABOUT ME DISAGREEING WITH YOUR PERCEPTION OF HIS PLAYING, RATHER THAN ANYTHING TO DO WITH ERIC MOORE DIRECTLY!
Sorry for all the caps, but I felt moved to type it like that. Stop with all of this hyper-sensitivity, it is amazing how rattled some of you get when someone doesn't rank a drummer you like, as highly as you'd like them to.
~OD